CAMERA URBANA
CAMERA URBANA
© 2021 Filippo Fabbri
July - December 2021 - EUNIC / Saint Petersburg
Funded by the Institut Français and the Goethe Institut
Developed during the 2020-21 pandemic, Camera Urbana is an immersive experience that takes the visitor through the multiple meta-surfaces that build the contemporary urban space, via the navigation of interactive perspectives, associated to various multi-sensorial stimuli.
The concept of "Camera" has a strong reference to the "Camera Obscura", (from latin : "dark chamber” or “dark room”) which, since the antiquity, has been a singular process used to observe, understand and re-elaborate the world. Also, the idea of a space "apart" echoes with the solitude and segregation that the world has suffered during the pandemic, and that still suffers today.
The visitor explores 5 rooms ("Camerae"), either through Virtual Reality, on-site Video projections, or by navigating on a smartphone/tablet. Each Camera offers the experience of a particular space of the city of Paris, in France. From the "Boulevard Peripherique", that constitute a physical frontier of the urban space, to the "Parc de la Villette", that configures a living micro-cosmos within the city, each Camera immerses the visitor into a singular point of view on reality. People, animals, objects and the urban environment become the trajectories of organic points of energy, while their quantised digital projections take the form of living bar-code.
This work has been exhibited on-line at the international exhibition "THE CITY" on the EUNIC 2021 platform, and on-site at the Saint Petersbourg Revolutionary Museum.
